Sentences with phrase «cause cell waste»

The natural destruction of fat cells will cause cell waste.

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These «waste» products are thought to cause damage to healthy muscle cells.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

The heat and pressure cause the cells of the waste material to break down into different fractions — biocrude and an aqueous liquid phase.

Low energy electrons are ubiquitous and are known to play important role in variety of phenomena relevant to astrochemistry (where they participate in synthesis of new molecules), in radiation biology (where they cause chemical changes in living cell, plasma chemistry), atmospheric chemistry, radioactive waste management and nanolithography — to name but a few.

How Huntington's disease causes wasting In an accompanying paper in the same issue of Cell, Dillin also reports that stressing neurons in the brain makes them release a hormone, serotonin, that sends alert messages throughout the body that the brain cells are under attack, setting off a similar stress response in cells far from the brain.

It is characterized by the wasting of skeletal muscles and caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord; the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness, atrophy and premature death due to respiratory problems.

Paper author, Professor Margaret Frame, Cancer Research UK scientist at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, said: «We've shown that cancer cells can adapt to the problems caused by stress, by hijacking normal cell waste disposal to «bag up and bin'toxic proteins.

Spinal muscular atrophy, which is often likened to a genetic form of polio, is caused by a wasting away of nerve cells in the spinal cord.

Spinal muscular atrophy involves wasting of the skeletal muscles and is caused by gradual degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord.

Like Lou Gehrig's disease, SMA is a neuromuscular illness that attacks nerve cells of the spinal cord and causes skeletal muscles to waste away.

Antioxidants serve as a protection for your cells against the oxidative damage that free radicals such as metabolic wastes and pollutants cause.

You may understand how having such an abundance of toxins in the cells and tissues and such a mass of horrible waste in the colon would inevitably cause hair loss, and lead to long - term illness.

In short, leptin causes the body — and individual muscle cells — to transform fat into waste heat, thereby slimming down the cells and the body.

When the walls of blood vessels lose elasticity excess fluids and waste products, instead of being excreted, press towards the fat tissue where they attach to the fat cells, thus causing swelling and cellulite.

Antioxidants are helpful because they protect body cells from highly damaging metabolic waste products, called free radicals, that can cause mutations which may lead to disease.

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are a group of an inherited autosomal recessive metabolic cell storage disorders caused by defective lycosomes, subcellular material that allows enzymes within the cell to process, use and discard unwanted and waste material.

This may be because antioxidants neutralize dangerous metabolic waste products called free radicals, which can cause mutations within body cells that may lead to these diseases.

By acting as antioxidants, they protect the body from free radicals, which are dangerous metabolic waste products that carry a high charge which causes them to «steal» electrons from the particles that make up body cells.

Once enough fat has accumulated in these liver cells to cause them to swell, they can no longer do their normal chores of protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism and detoxification of wastes.

In the other half of primary hypothyroid cases, a specific cause of thyroid gland damage can not be found; these cases are known as idiopathic follicular atrophy in which the hormone - producing cells (follicles) of the thyroid gland waste away (or atrophy) for an unknown (i.e. idiopathic) reason.